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Life without a control button?

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ArC_man
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States2798 Posts
August 11 2008 08:28 GMT
#1
So I drive back to school and I set up my laptop and get ready for some web surfing when I suddenly notice, my "control" button disappeared. Apparently it broke off from too much usage or something and disappeared during the trip.

Immediate problems become:
1) Copy and pasting things
2) Hotkeying units/buildings in Starcraft
3) Minor habit things like opening new tabs in Firefox, etc

#1 and #3 are probably not big problems, but how the hell am I supposed to play Starcraft now? Is there even a way to hotkey things without the control button? O_o

People told me to use the other control button, however my computer only has 1 (O_o? I know).

****
ToKoreaWithLove
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Norway10161 Posts
August 11 2008 08:29 GMT
#2
remap the windows button and use it?
ModeratorFather of bunnies
ArC_man
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States2798 Posts
August 11 2008 08:31 GMT
#3
The Windows button is on the top right of my keyboard >_<

All I have next to control is Alt >_<
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
August 11 2008 08:32 GMT
#4
autohotkey time
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24796 Posts
August 11 2008 08:32 GMT
#5
I'd try to get it replaced/fixed rather than use another button as a workaround, but I guess that would be a temporary fix...
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
August 11 2008 08:36 GMT
#6
get a usb keyboard
Do you really want chat rooms?
zgl
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1055 Posts
August 11 2008 09:54 GMT
#7
You can buy replacement keyboards for most of the popular laptops. Prices run anywhere between $20 to $100. Average is around $40.
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17743 Posts
August 11 2008 09:57 GMT
#8
play protoss (im sorry)
ils
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
knyttym
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States5797 Posts
August 11 2008 10:20 GMT
#9
On August 11 2008 18:57 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
play protoss (im sorry)


that doesn't work. protoss really need those hotkeys for their 1a2a3a4a5a
pangshai
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Chinatown5333 Posts
August 11 2008 11:02 GMT
#10
just musing about the fact that i'm probaby the only one who thought, when i clicked the thread, that i was going to see a thread about "life without a cock". good luck with your control button. i'd suggest getting a USB keyboard.
#1 midas fan
Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-11 12:12:54
August 11 2008 12:09 GMT
#11
Step 1: Pop out useless windows key or right control key
Step 2: Put it in old control key spot
Step 3: Adapt to potentially smaller key
Step 4: Get really frustrated
Step 5: Ebay a new keyboard

(Edit: in case you're wondering I'm speaking from experience)
♞
kpcrew
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1071 Posts
August 11 2008 12:25 GMT
#12
life without a cock?
half the world's population seems to thrive without one

and a bunch of men in thailand
Clan Lzuruha
TechniQ.UK
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United Kingdom391 Posts
August 11 2008 13:46 GMT
#13
buy a normal sized USB/PS\2 keyboard and plug it in. They dont cost much
Fan of: Acer.Scarlett and Liquid'NonY //
G5
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States2921 Posts
August 11 2008 15:03 GMT
#14
I saw the title and froze in a state of shock for a good 5 seconds...

I wish you the best of luck getting through this....

I couldn't imagine
geometryb
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1249 Posts
August 11 2008 19:11 GMT
#15
pluck out the control key on the other side of the keyboard and put it in the missing spot.
geometryb
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States1249 Posts
August 11 2008 19:11 GMT
#16
or am i the only person with a keyboard with 2 ctrl keys?
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32157 Posts
August 11 2008 19:33 GMT
#17
Go to school computer lab
take pen, pop out their control key
solved
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FreeDoM[YA]
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Canada855 Posts
August 11 2008 19:45 GMT
#18
On August 12 2008 04:33 Hawk wrote:
Go to school computer lab
take pen, pop out their control key
solved


Evil... Pure Evil...
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
August 11 2008 20:04 GMT
#19
On August 12 2008 04:33 Hawk wrote:
Go to school computer lab
take pen, pop out their control key
solved

exactly my way of thinking
One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
August 11 2008 20:25 GMT
#20
Use a key you won't need, just pop it out and replace it.
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